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BackBox News M irko Buzolitch ETI-NET About ETI-NET M ontreal-Based: 35 employees Customers on every continent (except Antarctica) Enterprise Solutions since 1988 Cross-platform file transfer NonStop to/ from M ainframe IP

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BackBox News

M irko Buzolitch

ETI-NET

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About ETI-NET

  • M ontreal-Based: 35 employees
  • Customers on every continent (except Antarctica)
  • Enterprise Solutions since 1988

– Cross-platform file transfer NonStop to/ from M ainframe – IP and Virtual tape-based backup solutions – Focus: “ NonStop-to-Other” integration – High-end customized transfer solutions

  • Development Partner with HP, IBM / Tivoli,

EM C/ Legato, Data Domain

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Some Customers Some Customers

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Virtual Tape – What & Why?

  • Technique to get backup/ archive data off NSK systems
  • Transparent to NonStop applications: B/ R, BR2, TM F

– Appears as tape drives

  • Connects to:

– S-series via PM F, IOM F, SNDA ports (SCSI) – NS Integrity via IOAM E/ FCSA or VIA (FC) – NS Blade via Storage CLIM (FC)

  • No “ magic” to virtual tape (target-mode + tape emulation)
  • But what it does with the backup data is key
  • And how it keeps track of it is critical !
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Virtual Tape Data Center Integration

  • Connects to your SAN, NAS, file server
  • ETI-NET’s focus has been & is: INTEGRATION
  • Integrates with your enterprise storage manager

– Via API or scripted client

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Simple Fault Tolerant VTC Configurations

SAN array, ESM Server, Data Deduplication, etc. NonStop Systems

(TMF-protected BackBox catalog & metadata)

EZX/BackBox VTCs

(context-free)

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State-of-the Art NonStop Backup/ Transfer Challenges

When HP needed high performance virtual tape solutions, they turned to ETI-NET: Cross-platform transfer: NonStop to/ from M ainframe for Telco

  • Transfer 2.6 TB of data within 2 hour window (379 M B/ sec)

M assive SQL/ M X DB Restore for Government user:

  • M anage ~390 TB of backups, TM F dumps & TM F audit
  • M anage HP ESL tape (LTO-3) library containing the tapes
  • Restore 29 TB database within 24 hour window

ETI-NET met the requirements!

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High-end Virtual Tape Solution

NonStop Integrity to/ from LTO-3 tape via XP disk staging area M ASSIVE SQL/ M X DB Backup:

  • Backed up 29 TB database in 15hr 24 min
  • Effective overall rate: 548 M B/ sec (6 VTCs @ 91.4 M B/ sec)

M ASSIVE SQL/ M X DB Restore:

  • Restored full database in 23 hr 58 min
  • Effective overall rate: 336 M B/ sec (6 VTCs @ 56 M B/ sec)
  • Limited by bottlenecks in physical tape media handling
  • Restore measured at 97 M B/ sec when no tape bottleneck
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M assive SQL/ M X Backup Using

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NonStop Integration

  • BackBox management software on NSK

– Tape catalogs, metadata & configuration info – TM F protected – Which do you trust: NonStop + TM F or Linux Clustering? – Guardian logon to the VTC – Guardian security on each virtual tape

  • Integrated with DSM / TC & TM FCOM

– Created virtual tapes are automatically cataloged & labeled – Interlocks prevent accidental media deletion if not SCRATCH – Captures catalog updates for DR

  • Integrated with NonStop EM S

– All events logged there – Tape mount requests intercepted (and checks for missed requests)

  • Intelligent pre-fetch

– Can anticipate next tape that will be called for by a job

  • Designed for fault-tolerance
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NS Tape Drives Going EOL in Dec 2008

Tape Technology NonStop Product ID DLT 4000 5150ACL, 5152ACL, 5259 SDLT 220 5259 DAT / DDS1,2 5141, 5141ACL DAT / DDS1,2,3 5145, 5145-2SE, 5145ACL 3490E (36 track) 5194, 5194ACL, 5196, 5106ACL, 5193 3480 (18 track) 5180ACL, 5181ACL, 5190, 5190ACL, 5191, 5191ACL 9-track (1600 / 6250bpi) 5130, 5131, 5170, 5171, 5172, 5175, 5177 9-track (1600 bpi only) 5160, 5160-1, 5161, 5162 Other 5126, 5165-1

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Your Drive will soon be EOL! What to Do?

  • Buy another tape drive?

– NS models are expensive – Can it read your archived tapes? – If so, is its write capacity limited? – Connectable to S-series & Integrity? – If use to write: standalone, auto-loader or library? – Do you really want to continue using tape media?

  • There is a better way…
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Tape Replacement Appliance

  • Not much more $ than NonStop tape drive
  • Complete virtual tape solution
  • Internal backward-compatible tape drive
  • 5 TB virtual tape storage internal
  • Based on proven BackBox™technology
  • Connects to: S-series, NS Integrity
  • HP Proliant hardware for easy field service
  • Shipped pre-configured - simple to install
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BackBox Express™Solves:

  • End-of-Life NonStop tape drives
  • Ongoing need to retrieve from your tape archives
  • Need for a tape drive in new NonStop systems
  • Read SIT and SUT tapes
  • Create dump tapes to send to HP
  • Operations costs for handling tape media
  • Prohibitive cost of other NonStop virtual tape products

for entry-level systems

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Where Does it Fit?

  • Small NonStop systems (S- or NS-series)
  • Simple single configuration:

– Single (SCSI or FC) interface to NS host system – 4 virtual tape drives – No external storage for virtual tapes supported – No integration to enterprise storage managers – No data de-duplication – No redundant configurations – Choose internal tape drive: LTO, DLT, DAT now, others pending

  • BUT: A GREAT PRICE!!!
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NEW: Software v2.04

  • Faster performance

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New approach to tape emulator buffer handling

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New PCI-Express (PCIe) Fibre Channel HBAs

  • Data compression

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Doing it the right way: in-line with negligible slow-down

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Persistent across disk & tape media

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Generally 2-3x, more in some cases

  • New operations visibility

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Capacity management information

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Improved visibility of current status & operations

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Especially for very large configurations

  • Intelligence in anticipating what NonStop system will want

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Remembers backup sequences, queries DSM / TC

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Recognizes TM F Audit tapes from Dump tapes

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Can allocate specified drives & resources for Audit

  • Cluster support

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Generally don’t need with BackBox architecture, but…

  • Available end of September
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NEXT: Software v2.05

  • November 2008
  • Support for EOL tape drives
  • Disaster recovery capabilities
  • And more…

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Cross-platform Data M ovement

  • NonStop systems exchange data with mainframes

– e.g. end-of-day account data & receiving start-of-day data – Common among BASE24 installations

  • Usually via physical tape & “ sneakernet”
  • But this approach has a number of problems:

– Relatively slow – Frequently involves operations personnel actions – Tape media is prone to errors – M any NonStop tape drives approaching end-of-life

  • There is a better way…
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Cross-platform Data M over

  • Channel speed file movement - dramatically faster
  • NonStop to M ainframe or M ainframe to NonStop
  • Eliminates tape use, minimizes “ sneakernet”
  • Reliable - no more tape media errors
  • Acts as native tape drives on NonStop & mainframes
  • No applications changes required
  • Particularly suited to BASE24 users
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Cross-platform Data M over

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Summary:

  • Transfers growing amounts of data in shrinking time

windows

  • Channel speed transfers on each platform
  • M ultiple VTCs can handle massive transfers
  • Configurable for fault tolerance - no more transfer failures

caused by equipment malfunction

  • Takes advantage of your choice of staging storage

subsystems

  • Frees up operations admin time for more valuable tasks
  • Simple to implement - no application changes needed
  • Can combine with BackBox - the most reliable & cost-

effective virtual tape solution for NonStop

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QUESTIONS?

Contact: Mirko Buzolitch Mirko.buzolitch@etinet.com